ABSTRACT
Globalization and transnational flows of religious groups may mean negotiation and contestation for religious spaces, especially in cities (Geoffroy 2004). While some scholars argue that, as a consequence, sociability has become a casualty in capitalist modern cities (Marty 2007; Niebuhr 2007), others contend that the acquired cosmopolitan worldview has encouraged accommodation of differences (Garces-Foley 2007; Moore 2007; Roof 2007; Williams 2007). Adding to this conversation, I put my focus on Hong Kong, which claims to be ‘Asia's world city’, and which is well known for increasingly crowded public spaces. This research explores how religious spaces are created, negotiated, and contested between a migrant ethnic-religious minority group and the local dominant group by looking into the active participation of some fifty South Asian women and children, predominantly Pakistani Muslims, in a Chinese temple fair (Tai Kok Tsui Temple Fair).
